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Kate Hardy

@katerhardy.bsky.social
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Professor of Global Labour. Co-Editor in Chief - New Technology Work and Employment. Interests include: Marxist-Feminism, sex work, feminist activism, self-employment, work and technology, gender, decolonial theory.

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Kate Hardy @katerhardy.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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Kate Hardy @katerhardy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
We need a renewed conversation on what HE is actually for and how it should be delivered. Rampant student debt, mass redundancies and abandoning academic integrity to drink the Big Tech kool-aid is not it. This piece is a great starting point in that conversation. tribunemag.co.uk/2026/09/brit...
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British Academia is Dying. It’s Time for a National Industrial Response
Workers in higher education are fighting atomised struggles to save their jobs. A rank-and-file strategy is needed to unite them.
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Dr Eleanor Janega @goingmedieval.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
If you haven't already, can you please take a minute to sign this demand for a public inquiry into the role of the media in Prof. Arday's death? Thanks so much. Jason Arday: Demand a public inquiry now | Good Law Project share.google/yglZz4Gw42RJ...
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Jason Arday: Demand a public inquiry now | Good Law Project
Commission an immediate public inquiry into how to ensure a responsible press given its contribution to Dr Arday’s tragic death.
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Tom Gillespie @t-a-gillespie.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Many thanks to @digitcentre.bsky.social for supporting this project with @katerhardy.bsky.social, Gianluca Iazzolino and Yawei Zhao
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Kate Hardy @katerhardy.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Join our editorial team as an Associate Editor at New Technology, Work and Employment. If you have any questions, please do get in touch and I would be pleased to talk about the positions.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 23/06/2026
Israel deliberately targeting Gaza children to commit genocide, UN inquiry finds
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Israel deliberately targeting Gaza children to commit genocide, UN inquiry finds
Report says by aiming at children Israel is undermining capacity of Palestinian people to exist Israel continues to commit genocide by deliberately targeting Palestinian children in Gaza, an ⁠independent UN inquiry has found. The report by the UN independent international commission of inquiry examined violations against Palestinian children since the start of the war in Gaza, and said about 30% of those killed by Israeli forces have been children. Continue reading...
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
If Streeting is the answer, Labour hasn't understood the question.
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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Opposition to genocide is being conflated with very real threats to Jewish people. It's not just a false smear: It stops people believing that antisemitism is real - when it is a very real menace that needs to be fought.
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University of Hertfordshire UCU @uhertfordshireucu.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
On Friday afternoon before the Bank Holiday, colleagues in the Humanities department were called to a meeting on Tuesday. They were informed that the University Portfolio Review had decided that English Language, English Literature, Philosophy, History & Creative Writing UG degrees would close
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Thank you Rabbi for your kind words! 🙏🏽
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
You won't have seen it on the News but right now Israel is destroying 600,000 homes in Lebanon, to move 2m out of 22% of Lebanon, so they can steal it all for themselves. A war crime not seen since Hitler, or Gaza.
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
More u-turns, prevarication and caving into developers from Labour. The Greens are clear. No more leaseholds. Bring in rent controls. Vote Green on 7th May. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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We can't abolish leasehold outright, minister says
Matthew Pennycook rejects criticism the government is dragging its feet on leasehold reform.
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Ben Bowsher @benbowsher.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
If you missed it, I’m part of a small collective trying to bring a radical bookshop shop to Newcastle. We haven’t had a good proper radical book shop since the 1980s. We think that should change! We launched our crowdfunder today, support if you can: www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/booksfromb... Pls share
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Ben Bowsher @benbowsher.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
As the crowdfunder for the first radical bookshop icon Newcastle for 40 years gets closer to the end I’m making the bold move of calling on all the academics I sort of vaguely know and also those I don’t to share the link for our crowdfunder: www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/booksfromb...
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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Seven countries now use renewable energy for 100% of their electricity Recent data has shown that in 2022, countries including Albania, Paraguay, Ethiopia & Nepal produced more than 99.7% of the electricity they consumed using geothermal, hydro, /1 thread www.renewableinstitute.org/seven-countr...
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Seven countries now use renewable energy for 100% of their electricity - The Renewable Energy Institute
Countries including Albania, Paraguay, Ethiopia & Nepal produced more than 99.7% of the electricity they consumed using geothermal, hydro, solar and wind power marking what scientists say is an “irrev...
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CERIC @ceric-lubs.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
The International Labour Process Conference is almost here. We're starting with online on Tues 14th & Thurs 16th April. This is free to attend. It promises to be fascinating & insightful two days. You can check out the programme on the ILPC website and register there www.ilpc.org.uk/ILPC-2026/Co...
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The Liberal BoJack @thelibbojack.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
I don’t think people around the world realize how bad the attack on Lebanon was today. It’s BAD. Like 9/11 BAD. Hospitals are overflowing and do not have enough blood. We still don’t know what the death toll is. This is TERRORISM. Pure and Simple. April 8. Never forget.
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Black Guy Does Sociology @blackmanbeyond.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
BTW the people who spent the last few years advocating for Palestine were clearly 100% right that normalizing war crimes and genocide there would just increase the likelihood of inhumane actions elsewhere. Just saying.
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Early Education and Childcare Coalition @coalitionedcare.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
What would it take to build a stronger early years workforce in England? Our Model for Change identifies the policies that shape workforce experience and sustainability over time. Read more: www.earlyeducationchildcare.org/model-for-ch... @katerhardy.bsky.social @ceric-lubs.bsky.social
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CERIC @ceric-lubs.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Take a look at @katerhardy.bsky.social and colleagues findings on pay and conditions in early years work.👇
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Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Spain has closed its airspace to US planes involved in attacks on Iran. Meanwhile, the UK is letting US bombers land, refuel and re-arm. Complicity is always a choice — and our government has chosen to drag Britain into an illegal war.
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Kate Hardy @katerhardy.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Our new research with @coalitionedcare.bsky.social found that low pay & poor conditions in early years undermine parents' confidence in settings. Parents know that educators working conditions are their children's learning conditions. www.nurseryworld.co.uk/content/news... @ceric-lubs.bsky.social
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Early years sector's low pay impacts parents' views of quality of settings - Nursery World
New research finds that poor pay in early years settings is impacting parents’ view of quality and calls on the Government to introduce a 10-year workforce strategy.
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Laleh Khalili @lalehkhalili.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Zionists have coveted the land south of the Litani, since the late 19th century. Israel's talks about "buffer zones" are, AS ALWAYS, about territorial maximalism
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Kate Hardy @katerhardy.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
I am pleased to today launch the Model for Change for building the early education workforce in England. Together with other @ceric-lubs.bsky.social researchers, we have worked with the @coalitionedcare.bsky.social to interrogate what needs to change to increase the status of early years work.
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Helen Czerski @helenczerski.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Oil prices wouldn't be all over the news today if more of our economy was powered by local, secure renewable energy. This isn't an "energy crisis". It's a fossil fuel crisis. 44% of UK electricity came from renewables in 2025. More of that plus an electrified economy => no more oil shocks.
Crude oil prices, showing a very sharp increase in the last day, from around 65 to 101 dollars per barrel..
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Elisa Pannini @elisapannini.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
The greatest risk of AI in higher education isn’t cheating – it’s the erosion of learning itself share.google/CjcdXejrMQyJ...
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The greatest risk of AI in higher education isn’t cheating – it’s the erosion of learning itself
Automating knowledge production and teaching weakens the ecosystem of students and scholars that sustains universities, raising existential questions about their mission.
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
This is huge - and proves exactly what we're saying. We cannot have a moment of complacency - only the Green Party can stop Reform. Vote Hannah Spencer and the Green Party on Thursday in Gorton and Denton. 💚
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Felicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Urgent writing on Birzeit U from @hamayel.bsky.social “Terror…disciplines through anticipation, exhaustion, and saturation. Subjects end up managing risk instead of imagining alternatives. Education as a space of experimentation becomes intolerable…” @mondoweiss.net mondoweiss.net/2026/02/the-...
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The hollowing out of Palestine’s most important university
Birzeit University is no longer what it once was. The transformation has been gradual and, therefore, easily rationalized, but the result has been the hollowing out of a university that once led the P...
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Kate Hardy @katerhardy.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
“The devastation of Gaza by this same elite is not a moral anomaly. It belongs to the same architecture. The same assumption that some lives are fully human, while others are expendable. Children abused on a private island. Children beneath rubble in Gaza” www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/epst...
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From Epstein to Gaza: The depravity of the western elite is now fully exposed
Gaza was not a deviation from the morality of the financial and political class that oversaw its annihilation. It was their culmination
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
The Green Party will stop Reform in Gorton and Denton. We'll be announcing Manchester's first Green MP in the morning. Lots and lots of work to do! youtu.be/02HnpczQQnQ?...
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‘How can they be anti-establishment if they're ALL TORIES?!’ | Zack Polanski pulls apart Reform UK
YouTube video by Manchester Evening News
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University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · 26/01/2026
400 jobs at risk. A campus set to close. This film explains what’s happening at the University of Essex and why staff, students and the local community are organising to stop it. 📍 Southend rally | 5 February
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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 11/01/2026
⭕️ The last Bedouin community in the southern Jordan Valley is being emptied, as more than 120 Palestinians have been forcibly displaced from the hamlet of Ras Ein al-Auja, according to B’Tselem. Residents were driven out after months of escalating settler violence... Additional details 👇
⭕️ The last Bedouin community in the southern Jordan Valley is being emptied, as more than 120 Palestinians have been forcibly displaced from the hamlet of Ras Ein al-Auja, according to B’Tselem.

Residents were driven out after months of escalating settler violence, including daily incursions, livestock theft, vandalism, and physical assaults by settlers, some armed and operating with military and police backing. 

Pressure peaked after a new Israeli outpost was established just 200 meters from the community. B’Tselem says the displacement is part of a broader campaign to clear Palestinians from Area C of the West Bank to expand Israeli control.

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Today (Thursday), 8 January, after persistent attempts, organized settler groups operating in coordination with, and backed by, the Israeli military and the police, succeeded in forcibly transferring 26 families numbering 124 people, including 59 minors from their homes in the community of Ras ‘Ein al-‘Auja.​

The community of Ras ‘Ein al-‘Auja, located about 10 kilometers north of Jericho, is the largest remaining shepherding community in the West Bank and the last surviving in the southern Jordan Valley, after the area has been “cleansed” of Palestinians. It is still home to about 100 families numbering roughly 600 people. The community has long suffered severe and daily violence carried out by Israeli youths, some of them minors, as well as armed settlers supported by military and police forces. This violence includes repeated incursions into its territory with herds of camels and sheep, physical attacks on residents, destruction and theft of property, and livestock theft. In one incident, in March 2025, approximately 1,500 head of sheep were stolen.

On Wednesday, 31 December 2025, another outpost was established some 200 meters from residents’ homes, where, with the approval of the Israeli authorities, herds of sheep and camels were brought for an extended stay. On the morning of Thursday, 8 January 2026, Palestinian families in the houses near which the outpost was established packed their belongings and left their homes of decades. This marks the first wave of departures from the community, whose residents have faced escalating violence since October 2023.

Although journalists report on events in the West Bank, diplomats visit and witness them with their own eyes, and local and international human rights organizations document and publicize the rampant violence, world leaders see, know, and yet choose to do nothing to stop the ethnic cleansing in the West Bank.​

The international community, which has failed, and continues to fail, to stop the ongoing genocide in the Gaza Strip, is still standing idly by in the face of the Israeli regime’s crimes in the West Bank, granting de facto immunity to the State itself and the individuals responsible for these crimes.
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 11/01/2026
This is what I meant when I wrote that "we can overthrow them with a union of care."
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Michael Kagan @michaelgkagan.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
I feel like I haven’t even been properly lied to about the purposes of this war
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Policy Leeds @policyleeds.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Join the launch of L-earning: rethinking young women's working lives project's final report to hear how women's early experiences of work shape future inequalities. 12 December, 4pm-7pm, University House, London. www.eventbrite.com/e/report-lau... @katerhardy.bsky.social @sspatleeds.bsky.social
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Report launch event: Rethinking Young Women's Working Lives
Join researchers from the ‘Rethinking Young Women's Working Lives’ project to learn about young women's earliest experiences of work
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Gabrielle A. Perry, MPH @geauxgabrielle.blacksky.app · 14/06/2025
Let’s also not forget that foreign born nannies have been very vocal about facing no wages, sexual assault, and violence and if they speak out, their rich white employers will threaten to report them to ICE
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Kate Hardy @katerhardy.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Young women students are 50% more likely to work, face sexual harassment & unclear about their rights. Join us *today at 12pm* to hear more about our findings on women student workers from our ESRC project L-Earning: rethinking young women's working lives. www.eventbrite.com/e/briefing-l...
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Briefing launch ‘Earning While Learning: student employment’
Learn about our new in-depth research on students in paid employment. We will share findings and advice for educators, employers and unions.
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CERIC @ceric-lubs.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
New article published on the CERIC website about the work our researchers @katerhardy.bsky.social and Mia Zhong have been doing with @ywworking.bsky.social business.leeds.ac.uk/research-cer...
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New report on student workers and ‘earning while learning’ released
Not only are student workers important to the economy, but working while in education has positive and negative effects on students, says a new report released today.
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The Syllabus @the-syllabus.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Women have long faced sidelining in Marxist spaces, yet as this panel argues, their insights have radically reshaped Marxist thought—whether by exposing unpaid labor or connecting dispossession and oppression. Feat. Simin Fadaee, Helen Yaffe, @katerhardy.bsky.social et al. buff.ly/b7jqkTA
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Global Marxism by Simin Fadaee, featuring Helen Yaffe, Ana Cecilia Dinerstein and Kate Hardy
In this panel discussion event, an all-female panel discussed Marx’s enduring influence, as well as whether writing about Marxism is a male-dominated space a...
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QM_UCU @qmucu.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
👀 Maybe all those @ucu.org.uk members who were told they couldn't take their employer to Employment Tribunal for [insert dubious excuse here] reasons over the punitive Action Short Of Strike deductions should feed into this? #EmploymentTribunal #EmploymentLaw #WorkersRights
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Faculty of English, University of Oxford @engfac.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
It is with great sadness that we report the news that Professor Vincent Gillespie died at home on 13 March. Read more about Professor Gillespie's life as an inspiring scholar, a warm and caring tutor, and a much-loved colleague.
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Professor Vincent Gillespie, FBA (11 February 1954–13 March 2025)
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Lucy Burke @lucyburkemcr.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Just the sheer, obscene spectacle of a Government minister on £160K+ plus expenses and all the freebies, coming for the sub £10K per year that my son gets in PIP - being autistic & learning disabled in a deeply unequal, discriminatory & hostile society is not a “lifestyle choice”
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methods@manchester @methodsmcr.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
@lilithbrouwers.bsky.social, @katerhardy.bsky.social & Prof. Kim Allen will present their experiences from the @ywworking.bsky.social project
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Will Rossiter @satyrane.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
1/3: Last August, upon my becoming a Prof., Vincent Gillespie emailed me unexpectedly to congratulate me & to note his belief that supporting rising talent meant more to him than any of his publications. He also said that it was now my turn to foster that support. When I was a PGR, after giving a …
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Kate Hardy @katerhardy.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
My Father in Law, Vincent Gillespie, passed away last night. Vincent was born in Liverpool. His parents -who left school at 14- saw education as the ticket out of disadvantage. Vincent went on to become Emeritus J R R Tolkien Professor of English Literature and Language at @ox.ac.uk
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Kate Hardy @katerhardy.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
New article from Hanne Stegeman & I: "Locating online labour: the salience of the national scale in remote digital work" (Environment & Planning A) We theorise nation-scale cultural & infrastructural norms & practices as still constitutive of online-only work. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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methods@manchester @methodsmcr.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
@lilithbrouwers.bsky.social, @katerhardy.bsky.social, & Prof. Kim Allen will present their experiences from the @ywworking.bsky.social project
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New Technology Work & Employment @ntwejournal.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
The "Disrupting Technology" conference calls for abstracts of careful, empirically grounded, theorisations of technology & its impact on work and employment relations. Asking what is genuinely novel about digital innovations & should be excellent & of interest to readers & authors of NTWE.
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